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Mayra Clay

Mayra Clay

Meditation teacher, children's author, and mindfulness coach based in London who teaches emotional resilience through meditation and her picture book "The Boy and the Pink Light"

Aug 10, 2026

8:21
But if we're fully present, often that'll just wash through, right? They'll express it, express it, express it for five, 10 minutes, and then it's gone.
8:29
Yeah, because you have communicated something that, um, maybe they can't deal with that, or they don't recognize it, or they don't know how, what it is.
8:37
So if you are, um, communicated that, okay, maybe it's a worry there, but everything can be resolved or whatever, or maybe it's a feeling there that, uh, they don't know, and then you just can go through that feeling, and you are helping them, um, just to, to, to process that.
8:56
Um, it's just navigating with them those, this, the situations.
9:01
Um, but also for, for, for us, it's very important that they see, um, like I said before, um, what is really ha- is happening to you.
9:12
So if, if, like Mark said, we react to something, they are like, "Okay." They, they, they get like, "Oh my God, so this is something very to worry." But if you react for something that maybe you don't like it but you react like, "Okay, I don't like it, but let's to go, let's go through this," it's another approach for them, and they're learning to be more aware of that, those things.

13 MINS LATER

23:01
Yeah.
23:01
Um, so it's a variation technique that actually we learn about this technique also because of the Bright Path.
1:16
How did you come to think about writing a book?
1:19
Yes, yes, thank you, Natasha.
1:22
Yeah, the idea came from I was working in the nursery area where my boys used to go in private school.
1:31
So So I always be fascinated to be around children because you can see that they are completely present all the time and they are as honest as they can be and beautiful souls and happiness.
1:47
So, yeah.
1:48
So I was very inspired for that.
1:49
Yeah.

10 MINS LATER

11:46
So talk to us about that, because I was reading a little bit about it and it's not something that I've come across before.
13:50
I've got to go to the next thing, you know, like it's just coming back to
13:54
now.
13:56
yeah yeah for for for me also um meditating do my meditation is is releasing the stress so you are releasing constantly that stress that life causes um that stress whatever you are more like to go home and be less stressful because you are carrying that suitcase that is less heavy.
14:25
So that's why it's very important also to start with ourselves because we are lighter and I hope we can be a bit lighter and functionally be more present.
15:20
So tell me about, yeah, the concept and the idea and the message for the children and for parents and what families might take away from it, what the concept was when you thought about doing it.
15:34
Yeah, avoiding the pink light is, the pink light is an ancient technique, but we know about it because of our meditation and it's a very, very simple technique.
15:44
And together with our meditation that we do, the pink light helped me to heal also relationship with my dad.
15:51
So when I was working in the nursery, I noticed that some children, unfortunately, they don't have the same privilege of having present parents or more caring parents.

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